Azure DevOps Services vs. CloudBees Continuous Delivery vs. Digital.ai Release

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure DevOps Services
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS, Microsoft Visual Studio Team System) is an agile development product that is an extension of the Microsoft Visual Studio architecture. Azure DevOps includes software development, collaboration, and reporting capabilities.
$2
per GB (first 2GB free)
CloudBees Continuous Delivery
Score 9.9 out of 10
N/A
CloudBees Continuous Delivery (formerly CloudBees Flow) is a DevOps solution that gives IT teams release orchestration, deployment automation, and pipeline and environment management in a unified platform. A release orchestration software, CloudBees CD is designed to help by taking the manual effort and risk out of delivering this software by making the process reliable, repeatable, and secure at any…N/A
Digital.ai Release
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Digital.ai Release, formerly XebiaLabs XL Release, is a release management tool designed for enterprises that enables users to control and track releases, standardize processes, and bake compliance and security into software release pipelines. As a release orchestration tool, Digital.ai Release works specifically for continuous delivery, and enables teams across an organization to model and monitor releases, automate tasks within IT infrastructure, in order to cut release times and improve…N/A
Pricing
Azure DevOps ServicesCloudBees Continuous DeliveryDigital.ai Release
Editions & Modules
Azure Artifacts
$2
per GB (first 2GB free)
Basic Plan
$6
per user per month (first 5 users free)
Azure Pipelines - Self-Hosted
$15
per extra parallel job (1 free parallel job with unlimited minutes)
Azure Pipelines - Microsoft Hosted
$40
per parallel job (1,800 minutes free with 1 free parallel job)
Basic + Test Plan
$52
per user per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure DevOps ServicesCloudBees Continuous DeliveryDigital.ai Release
Free Trial
NoNoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequiredNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Azure DevOps ServicesCloudBees Continuous DeliveryDigital.ai Release
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Score 9.1 out of 10
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Score 9.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.1 out of 10
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Score 9.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
Azure DevOps ServicesCloudBees Continuous DeliveryDigital.ai Release
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(70 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.6
(9 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.1
(11 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
4.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure DevOps ServicesCloudBees Continuous DeliveryDigital.ai Release
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
DevOps is much more user friendly than Git itself. There is a more GUI-centric interface, tighter integration with the Azure / Entra architecture. For those of use in the Microsoft-sphere, it really is excellent for code-centric project management. I rate this as an 8 because it does not seem quite as well suited for fully functional / non-code project aspects in implementation. Nor does it have customer / end-user portal / front end for easy reporting and insight.
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CloudBees
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Digital.ai (formerly XebiaLabs, CollabNet VersionOne, and Arxan)
Mainly used in release management where all deployments are well managed and processed further based on the approval system. Complete enterprise-level solution with minor difficulties which need to be added to product improvement features. Integration with other CI-CD tools makes it easier to perform tasks in terms of release and deployments.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Flexible Requirements Hierarchy Management: AZDO makes it easy to track items such as features or epics as a flat list, or as a hierarchy in which you can track the parent-child relationship.
  • Fast Data Entry: AZDO was designed to facilitate quick data entry to capture work items quickly, while still enabling detailed capture of acceptance criteria and item properties.
  • Excel Integration: AZDO stands out for its integration with MS Excel, which enables quick updates for bulk items.
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CloudBees
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Digital.ai (formerly XebiaLabs, CollabNet VersionOne, and Arxan)
  • Cross-team release workflow control using email, texts, scripts allow our release management to be truly a 360 process.
  • XL Release allowing our Jenkins toolchain to control the beginning of release trains which is very powerful.
  • XL release allows us to expose the business process flow for anyone to read direct at the source which runs the process instead of a separate vision.
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Cons
Microsoft
  • I did mention it has good visibility in terms of linking, but sometimes items do get lost, so if there was a better way to manage that, that would be great.
  • The wiki is not the prettiest thing to look at, so it could have refinements there.
  • It could improve the search slightly better.
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CloudBees
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Digital.ai (formerly XebiaLabs, CollabNet VersionOne, and Arxan)
  • Pagination of data - across tool.
  • User Roles Management API can be improved.
  • Case insensitive ID's are treated differently making user face login and access issues.
  • Dependency on Universal template/custom plugins creation should be reduced.
  • Code versioning of templates is very difficult.
  • Better error handling.
  • Futures Timeout Issues.
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Likelihood to Renew
Microsoft
I don't think our organization will stray from using VSTS/TFS as we are now looking to upgrade to the 2012 version. Since our business is software development and we want to meet the requirements of CMMI to deliver consistent and high quality software, this SDLC management tool is here to stay. In addition, our company uses a lot of Microsoft products, such as Office 365, Asp.net, etc, and since VSTS/TFS has proved itself invaluable to our own processes and is within the Microsoft family of products, we will continue to use VSTS/TFS for a long, long time.
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CloudBees
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Digital.ai (formerly XebiaLabs, CollabNet VersionOne, and Arxan)
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Usability
Microsoft
Azure DevOps is a powerful, complex cloud application. As such there are a number of things it does great and something where there is room for improvement. One of those areas would be in usability. In my opinion it relies too much on search. There is no easy way to view all projects or to group them in a logical way. You need to search for everything.
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CloudBees
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Digital.ai (formerly XebiaLabs, CollabNet VersionOne, and Arxan)
The tool is easy to use, easy to navigate and learn. Manages releases with proper approvals in a systematic manner. Though it needs minor improvements in terms of pagination (data loading), access management, but, overall the tool helps in increasing productivity and less time for production deployments.
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Support Rating
Microsoft
When we've had issues, both Microsoft support and the user community have been very responsive. DevOps has an active developer community and frankly, you can find most of your questions already asked and answered there. Microsoft also does a better job than most software vendors I've worked with creating detailed and frequently updated documentation.
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CloudBees
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Digital.ai (formerly XebiaLabs, CollabNet VersionOne, and Arxan)
Support is not good at all. To this day, I have to mail my queries and their support site does not log in for me (me alone). But, upon contacting many times, no one helps with a proper response. Though good thing is, I get a proper response over mail too. But, being informative about the tool and not on the issues faced by users outside of the process to get support should also be addressed equally. Which is currently missing in support.
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Implementation Rating
Microsoft
Was not part of the process.
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CloudBees
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Digital.ai (formerly XebiaLabs, CollabNet VersionOne, and Arxan)
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
Microsoft Planner is used by project managers and IT service managers across our organization for task tracking and running their team meetings. Azure DevOps works better than Planner for software development teams but might possibly be too complex for non-software teams or more business-focused projects. We also use ServiceNow for IT service management and this tool provides better analysis and tracking of IT incidents, as Azure DevOps is more suited to development and project work for dev teams.
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CloudBees
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Digital.ai (formerly XebiaLabs, CollabNet VersionOne, and Arxan)
XL release is simpler to configure and deploy to the organization than other change management platforms I have used. That simplicity has minor drawbacks requiring you to fit into a limited set of control methods but that exercise helped us simplify a needlessly onerous process.
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • We have saved a ton of time not calculating metrics by hand.
  • We no longer spend time writing out cards during planning, it goes straight to the board.
  • We no longer track separate documents to track overall department goals. We were able to create customized icons at the department level that lets us track each team's progress against our dept goals.
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CloudBees
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Digital.ai (formerly XebiaLabs, CollabNet VersionOne, and Arxan)
  • XL release has improved our consistency of release process, removing multiple days worth of manual status checking and coordination.
  • XL release has allowed us to increase the number of beta releases we can support due to simplifying our release actions.
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ScreenShots

CloudBees Continuous Delivery Screenshots

Screenshot of A comprehensive new way to plan, schedule, and track releases.Screenshot of Kanban pipeline view presents the entire release, with all stages and tasks, for easy editing and full visibility.Screenshot of CloudBees Flow’s DevOps Foresight identifies patterns using deep analytics of historical data from your tool chain, predicts the future risk of releases using those patterns and shows how to reduce that risk.Screenshot of Get a bird’s eye view of release status, milestone dates, dependencies, pending approvals, test results, progress, environments and teams involved.Screenshot of Out of the box and customizable library of approved automation accelerates DevOps adoption. Promotes best practices and consistency across the organization.Screenshot of The Release Portfolio View provides a bird’s eye view of the entire hierarchy of releases. While authoring, this view provides clear understanding of the connections and dependencies between releases, even down to specific stages in each of the release pipelines.